Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #012169
- #c8102e
- #ffffff
Other flags with red, white or blue or all of red, white and blue at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- a single-coloured ground
The fly edge and the foot are one colour, and the same one, whatever else is drawn on top of it.
- a canton
A rectangle in the top corner by the pole that is not what the rest of the flag is, and that stops cleanly on both its sides.
What is on it
Each of these is what this flag's own Wikipedia article says is on it, the sentence is underneath, so you can see what it rests on.
- star
The blue and white waves evoke the Caribbean Sea, while the three green stars represent the territory's three islands of Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac.
Flag of the Cayman Islands on Wikipedia
- coat of arms
The flag of the Cayman Islands consists of a Blue Ensign defaced with the British overseas territory's coat of arms.
Flag of the Cayman Islands on Wikipedia
- writing
The motto, "He hath founded it upon the seas", is derived from the Book of Psalms 24:2, and recognises the Christian patrimony of the islands.
Flag of the Cayman Islands on Wikipedia
- lion
The yellow lion on the red field is a conspicuous symbol of the Kingdom of England, the Cayman Islands' mother country.
Flag of the Cayman Islands on Wikipedia
- fish
The turtle and pineapple also epitomise the flora and fauna of the islands.
Flag of the Cayman Islands on Wikipedia
What we know about it
A coat of arms of their own was granted to the Cayman Islands on 14 May 1958, and it went onto the Blue Ensign with a white disc as its background; the Admiralty authorised it, and in 1959 (around the time the territory was given self-government) it was adopted as a proxy national flag. The flag was officially changed in 1999, the coat of arms enlarged and the white disc removed in favour of a white trim. But both are used interchangeably in an official capacity, and the National Museum, to which Parliament vested responsibility for the production of all national flags, regards the white disc version to be correct.
Drafted from Flag of the Cayman Islands on Wikipedia, as it read on 2026-08-26, and checked back against it: every date, name and number above appears in the sentences it was written from. Nobody here wrote it by hand.
Nearest in the world
Every flag is compared with every other one, off the pictures themselves. Two copies of one picture score 0; these are the closest to this one. How that is measured.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Cayman Islands is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1200 × 600
Credit Unknown author Unknown author
From Flag of the Cayman Islands.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
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